Bart Wright: Paladins' roaring start all a part of change at Furman

12:33 AM,
Mar. 11, 2013

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Bart Wright

Life was good back then. The economy was booming, jobs were plentiful and everyone was spending money and living it up.

They called it the Roaring Twenties, not just in this country, but in major European cities as well, and it was so accurate the name stuck. Women danced as flappers, the Jazz Age invigorated the country and Calvin Coolidge was President.

What's the point, here in the not-so-roaring Tens when thoughts of the economy bring up ugly images of fiscal cliffs, sequesters, meat cleaver budget cuts and all the rest? ...